In the early afternoon of a Wednesday in January 2013, a recording studio on Hickman Mills Road in south Kansas City was the scene of a double homicide. Co-owner Mark L. Williams, 53, known as Maestro, was shot and killed after a man forced entry into the studio around 12:30 p.m. Another man present, 40-year-old Antonio E. Jones, was also fatally shot.

A rap artist who had been at the studio preparing to record escaped through a back door and sought help at a nearby tire shop. He told police the shooter was about 5 feet 9 inches and 150 pounds, wearing a beanie, and said he did not know the gunman or why Jones was at the studio. Investigators processed the scene and interviewed people familiar with the studio, but the case cooled over time.

As of late 2018 these killings were still unsolved and no public arrests or identifications of a suspect had been announced. If anyone has information about that afternoon or those involved, please share what is known with the Kansas City Police Department.